"The people shall further be graded according to wealth, andâ€”humorous touch thisâ€”the more obviously a man labor, the more stinting shall be his reward; the more he work in the out-of-doors, the thinner his clothing shall be; the more his labor filthy him, the less water shall he have to wash"

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Source : Jamie O'Neill (2002). “At Swim, Two Boys”, p.401, Simon and Schuster

Jamie O'Neill

#Humorous Quotes #Men Quotes #Doors Quotes

“While I was studying film at the Academy, the problems started. I wasn't a political activist directly in the time of Saddam [Hussein], because the dictator was so cruel and brutal that no one could criticize or complain. I felt futile and empty. The only solution in Iraq was to run away.”

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“Religion was created by insecure men to oppress women. Religion is the basis of all political ideas and it exempts the human being to find the "I" in them.”
“Readers will stay with an author, no matter what the variations in style and genre, as long as they get that sense of story, of character, of empathetic involvement.”
“I may have hurt some people along the way, but I would like to be seen as somebody who has done his best to do the right thing for any situation and not compromised.”
“Some people have this impression of me: 'Boy, he's always so serious on the field. Football. Football. Football.”
“I have been in love, and in debt, and in drink, this many and many a year.”

Source : 'Songs and Other Poems' (2nd ed., 1664) pt. 1 'The Mad Lover'
“But some one will say that this supreme Being, who made all things, and those also who conferred on men particular benefits, are entitled to their respective worship.”
“In places like universities, where everyone talks too rationally, it is necessary for a kind of enchanter to appear.”

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